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Farm Health Planning

• What is proactive FHP?
• Independent review of pump-priming
• FHP in England
• Cattle keepers
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• Sheep keepers

ARCHIVE: Farm health planning: Information for sheep keepers

The sheep sector chose to use the Defra pump-priming, in particular, to fund some ADAS research to pilot FHP as well as some guidance leaflets for keepers.

The pump-priming legacy...

Guidance

• Farmers Weekly Academy units on health planning
• RUMA vaccination guidance for sheep
• Improved ewe nutrition for better returns
• Improve your bottom line
• Protect your flock and your profits

Tools

• Reading University’s disease Cost Benefit Models for Ectoparasites, Footrot and Liver Fluke

Research

• National Sheep Association investigation into attitudes towards FHP in the English Sheep Sector
• Flock health planning

Page last modified: July 1, 2010
Page published: March 31, 2010

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